Do not be satisfied with anything smaller than a real devotion of yourself to the service of Christ.

And, above all, do not let these good resolutions die away. Each time you come to the Holy Communion see how you have been carrying them out. Ask pardon for your failure, ask for fresh strength to go forward. If you will do these things you will for ever bless the day when God gave you the affliction which at the time seemed so hard to bear.

Prayers in various Troubles.

A FEW prayers are added having reference to the various forms of trouble which have been dealt with above. In our Prayer Book we find prayers suitable for almost all occasions, but sometimes we are thankful for prayers less familiar to us and, perhaps, less conventional. The Prayer Book is intended chiefly for public worship-but in private we need to supplement it. The following prayers are brief and simple, and will, perhaps, suggest thoughts which can be more fully clothed in the sufferer's own words.

Sinfulness.

From the Prayer Book

General Confessions.

Almighty and most merciful Father." Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."

From the Litany

"O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take Thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good Lord, spare Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy most precious blood, and be not be angry with us for ever.

From all evil and mischief; from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil; from Thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation.

From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain-glory and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and from all uncharitableness.

From fornication, and all other deadly sin; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

That it may please Thee to give us an heart to love and dread Thee, and diligently to live after Thy commandments.

That it may please Thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred and are deceived.

That it may please Thee to strengthen such as do stand; and to comfort and help the weak-hearted; and to raise up them that fall; and finally, to beat down Satan under our feet.

That it may please Thee to give us true repentance; to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances; and to endue us with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to Thy Holy Word.

We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. "O God, merciful Father," etc.

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"We humbly beseech Thee, O Father,"

etc.

O MOST mighty God and merciful Father, who hast compassion upon all men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made; Who wouldest not the death of a sinner, but that he should rather turn from his sin, and be saved;

mercifully forgive us our trespasses; receive and comfort us, who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins. Thy property is always to have mercy; to Thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins. Spare us therefore, good Lord, spare Thy people whom Thou hast redeemed; enter not into judgment with Thy servants, who are vile earth and miserable sinners; but so turn Thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults, and so make haste to help us in this world, that we may ever live with Thee in the world to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.-(From the Commination Service).

Turn Thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to Thy people who turn to Thee in weeping, fasting, and praying. For Thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, and in Thy